LIFE & PATHWAYS
I live and work at the thresholds—between sound and silence, matter and memory, structure and intuition.
What began as formal training in classical music and philosophy has unfolded into a fluid, multidimensional practice across music, visual art, scent, ceramics, and digital media. My hands move between instruments as seamlessly as they hold a brush, shape clay, or capture light through the lens. The ear guides the eye; rhythm emerges in breath, form, and gesture.
I was born into the world of theatre—where voice, space, art and story constantly intertwine. This early immersion awakened a lifelong devotion to crossing boundaries between disciplines, and to attuning to the invisible forces that shape experience. While studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, I began developing an independent language that merged philosophy with sensory exploration.
Painting and photography have remained steady companions—ways of framing silence, catching shadow, and translating inner states into visual texture. Over time, my practice expanded further: into composition, olfactory installations, ceramics, and audio-reactive visual systems. But at its core, my work remains a search for resonance—for the architectures that move beneath perception.
Each step has brought me closer to the root of my work: aesthetic alchemy. The art of transformation, not just through form, but through perception itself.
ARTISTIC PRACTICE
My work is rooted in Aesthetic Alchemy—the transformation of perception into form.
This is not a metaphor, but a lived process: a way of composing across sound, image, material, and space to make the invisible perceptible. Through this alchemical lens, each work becomes a transmutation—a weaving of sensory impressions into new realities.
The perceptual foundation of this process is synesthesia. I perceive sound as color, scent as moving shape, physical touch as textured fields of color. This cross-sensory way of knowing guides everything I create—whether composing, sculpting, painting, or listening to the silent geometries of a space.
Ceramics, for me, are sculpted rhythm. Scent is ephemeral architecture. Music is structured space-time. Painting becomes a vibration of stillness. Photography, a way of catching breath in light. In each, the boundary between material and immaterial softens, revealing the underlying resonance that connects them.
My practice bridges ancient and contemporary ways of knowing—drawing from Renaissance curiosity, spatial and scientific research, and the deep intelligence of the senses. Each project emerges as a living system, where disciplines dissolve and reassemble, shaped by time, intuition, and the intimacy of attention.
This is not a practice bound by genre, but a field of transmutation—where silence becomes form, and form becomes invitation.
Grants
2023: Austrian Culture Ministry State Grant for Composition
2022: Austrian Culture Ministry Work Grant for Composition
2021: Arvo Pärt Centre Residency Scholarship
2020: Carinthian Culture Grant for Composition
2020: City of Vienna Grant for Composition
2019: Austrian Culture Ministry Grant for Music and Performing Arts
Education
2014 - 2018 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Doctoral Studies in Philosophy
2007 - 2014 University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Instrumental Studies/Viola Performance
Commissions
Vienna State Opera ・Swedish Chamber Orchestra ・ Västerås Sinfonietta ・Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra ・Ensemble Kontrapunkte ・Wien Modern ・feet become ears ・Anne Akiko Meyers ・Elisabeth Plank ・Ingerine Dahl ・Martin Kuuskmann ・Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir・ Cantus Novus Wien
Film Scoring
Vienna Game (in production) Disney+
Wiener Blut - Berggericht (2025) ORF/ZDF
Aufgetischt: Beethoven & Wien (2020) ORF/ZDF
Classical Music Premieres
2025, October 10th, Vienna (Austria): Blind Colours
2025, September 4th, Örebro (Sweden): Violin Concerto No. 1
2025, June, 6th, Vienna (Austria): Autopoiesis (Duo Version)
2024, June 4th, San José (Costa Rica): String Quartet No. 1
2023, July 10th, Tartu (Estonia): a rose-toned fragment
2023, July 2nd, Risør (Norway): Five Miniatures
2023, May 10th, Erfurt (Germany): Abstract Dualism
2023, April 15th, Stavanger (Norway): Sei solo la luce
2023, February 20th, Munich (Germany): Hall of Mirrors (Duo No. 1)
2022, September 27th, New York (USA): Heart Meditation
2022, April 28th, Örebro (Sweden): Xodus Hymn
2022, April 8th, New York (USA): Perpetuo
2022, April 8th, New York (USA): Autopoiesis
2022, April 8th, New York (USA): Childhood memories
2021, April 19th, Vienna (Austria): Atmospheres
2020, December 14th, Vienna (Austria): Olfactospheres
2020, February 7th, Cluj (Romania): Calamitas
2019, November 10th, Vienna (Austria)/Wien Modern: Rhizom
2019, November 9th, Vienna (Austria)/Wien Modern: Reset
2019, November 8th, Vienna (Austria)/Wien Modern: Static Pointillism
2019, September 27th, Timisoara (Romania): Archipelago
2019, Mai 17th, Iasi (Romania): Dreams of Lunacy
2018, November 24th, London (UK): Rewind
Exhibitions
2024, June 28th - September 29th, Vienna (Austria): Künstlerhaus: WUNDERKAMMER
2024, March 6th - April 14th, Millstatt (Austria), FORUM KUNST contemporary: Accrochage
2023, March 5th - May 5th, Millstatt (Austria), FORUM KUNST contemporary: Illusion - Delusion
2022, April 8th, New York (USA), Plaxall Gallery: CreArt Festival
2021, September 10th - November 7th, Vienna, Westlicht: Critical Mail Art & Image Text Collage
2019, August 15th - 19th, Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Art Expo
2019, July 16th - 25th, Rome, Millepiani Exhibition Space: GLITCHES AND DEFECTS
2019, March 21st - April 16th, Vienna, Jan Arnold Gallery/MQ: transformative embodiments
2017, October 1st - November 1st, Bodrum, Turkey: 3rd International Bodrum Biennial
2017, January 31st - April 8th, Vienna, Weisses Haus: STRATIFIED - Fragmentierte Welten
2016, December 15th, Vienna, HERR LEUTNER Westbahnstraße: Group Exhibit
2015, November 12th - 2016 January 10th, Vienna, Lukas Feichtner Gallery: In the Basement
2015, November 12th - 22nd, Lukas Feichtner Gallery: Vienna Art Week